?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WILLARD FREDERIC ELMES BULL'S EYE. 1929. 44x36 inches. Mather & Company, Chicago. Condition B+: repaired tears and discoloration in margins; punch holes in top margin. A Robin Hood type figure in green, orange, brown and yellow is aiming his bow against a dark blue background. From 1923-1929, the Mather Company produced a series of posters which owner Charles Mather deemed "Constructive Organization Posters." They have since come to be known as the "Mather Work Incentive Posters. "Aimed at improving the work practices of employees in industry and commerce" in the boom times following the First World War, Mather combined striking, graphics, direct messages and superb lithography to create "one of the most outstanding continuous series of graphically significant posters ever produced in America." (FAMLI).
